jesikah maria ross

Nov 9, 2020

I wrote a playbook but what we really needed was a revolution

“I feel shame and sorrow that I did not understand the depth of white supremacy in this country. When I see white hate used to leverage power, I feel sorrow. I commit to being anti-racist in words and deeds.” The other day, my close friend posted this to Facebook. I…

Public Media

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I wrote a playbook but what we really needed was a revolution

Public Media

6 min read

Mar 5, 2019

Want to start evaluating your engaged reporting? Here’s what I did

I am on a mission: I want evaluation to be a newsroom norm, not something that would be nice to have. Weaving evaluation into my projects has been a game changer, giving me the data I need to understand the impact of my work and communicate it’s value to funders. …

Engaged Journalism

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Want to start evaluating your engaged reporting? Here’s what I did

Engaged Journalism

8 min read

Feb 23, 2019

How ‘engaged’ radio journalism helped a community tackle suicide

jesikah maria ross, Capital Public Radio Olivia Henry, USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Climbing the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada mountains, California’s Amador County is known for its wild beauty, Gold Rush history and small-town quality of life. It’s also home to a darker landscape — one…

Journalism

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Journalism

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Oct 10, 2018

Designing Powerful Public Conversations

There’s an alchemy when people get together face-to-face to ponder a tough issue and what to do about it. Good conversations are game changers. They help us connect with the topic, see issues in a new light, and shift how we relate to people different from us. …

Community Engagement

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Community Engagement

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Sep 2, 2018

Story Circles: Contact Zones for Deep Listening

Like many cities across the country, Sacramento, California, is grappling with an affordable-housing crisis. We’ve had the fastest rising rents in the nation for two years in a row. We have record-high home prices, a skyrocketing homeless population and intensifying gentrification and displacement. …

Housing

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Story Circles: Contact Zones for Deep Listening

Housing

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Jul 11, 2018

Creating Contact Zones

Civic aspiration is a powerful thing — it gives moral imagination someplace to go. — Krista Tippett, Journalist When you begin to imagine and act as if you live in the world you want to live in, you will have company. — Bernice Johnson Regan, Singer/Civil Rights Activist These quotes…

Engaged Journalism

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Engaged Journalism

4 min read